Rob Mensching

I saw Hadestown in the movie theater this weekend.

When I introduced the OSMF, many people told me it would not work unless some sort of license enforcement mechanism was in place.

Eight months ago WiX had 99 sponsors.

I have mixed feelings about Cloudflare acquiring VoidZero.

Today I turn 49.

Since it's release almost a year ago now, I've been collecting feedback on the Open Source Maintenance Fee.

We don't use Tailwind CSS at FireGiant, but I can't stop thinking about it.

Wow, inbox zero again.

It's been a bit over a month since the Open Source Maintenance Fee was introduced into the WiX Toolset.

A few of you have asked so I'm very excited to share that the Deployment Dojo is coming back for Season 2.

Today I'm launching an idea three years in the making.

I didn't know it but the last couple of years have been buliding up to this point.

We are living in the Second Generation of Open Source.

My brain is on fire.

I disabled the WiX Toolset GitHub Discussions to stop a spam attack.

I posted the bulk of my reflections on the WiX Toolset's 20th Anniversary on the FireGiant blog.

It's a cliche to talk about the importance of relationships in business.

Originally a thread on Twitter about the xz/liblzma vulnerability, when I finished typing it, I realized I had a real world slice of Open Source interaction that deserved more attention.

After a couple hours of experimentation, I think I figured out how to create a single NuGet package (.nupkg) to deliver both an assembly for managed projects (like .csproj) and a .lib for native projects (like .vcxproj).

I just created the label oop-ba-unsquashed before squashing the last two months of coding into a single working commit.

Today I turn the page on another year.

Albert Rusnak The Movie.

Casey calls it "the future interface for all computing" but I can't get over how isolating it looks.

Listening to Trent Reznor talk with Rick Rubin, it strikes me how much Trent reminds me of my best friend (and first student of the dojo), David Eidson.

On the first day of 2024, I re-launched my new personal website.